Cameron Diaz Quotes
Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
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Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.
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The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.
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Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
